Vitamin D deficiency in proximal femur fracture patients of South-East Queensland

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Awal, W
Bindra, R
Price, N
Sadler, A
Robinson, A
Hymer, I
Chen, J
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2020
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Objectives: To determine the incidence of hypovitaminosis D in proximal femur fracture (PFF) patients and investigate whether sociodemographic factors or radiographic parameters are associated with vitamin D levels. Methods: This is a consecutive case series of South-East Queensland patients presenting with low-energy PFFs. Vitamin D levels and sociodemographic factors (age, sex, postcode, medications and type of residence) were collected from medical records. Radiographic parameters included PFF type and cortical thickness of the femur. Results: A total of 313 patients were included (mean age = 79.5 years), and 105 (34%) were deficient in vitamin D (<50 nmol/L). There was no association between vitamin D levels and sociodemographic factors or radiographic parameters. Eighty-four (84%) of vitamin D-deficient patients were not taking vitamin D supplements. Conclusions: Social and demographic factors are not correlated with vitamin D levels in this cohort. Routine vitamin D supplementation may be indicated in ageing patients although it is not always protective of low-energy fractures.

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Australasian Journal on Ageing

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© 2020 ACOTA. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Vitamin D deficiency in proximal femur fracture patients of South‐East Queensland, Australasian Journal on Ageing, 2020, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.12791. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)

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Biomedical and clinical sciences

Human society

Psychology

Queensland

femoral fractures

hip fractures

vitamin D

vitamin D deficiency

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Awal, W; Bindra, R; Price, N; Sadler, A; Robinson, A; Hymer, I; Chen, J, Vitamin D deficiency in proximal femur fracture patients of South-East Queensland, Australasian Journal on Ageing, 2020

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